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Originally Posted by Trent B
Please do, you can't discredit state schools like that. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is incredibly highly ranked in many engineering fields as a state school.
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When did I ever discredit them? You're trying to get more out of what I said than my simple statement. I was merely pointing out that, while UIUC certainly has quality to it, It's a school with well over 30,000 undergraduate students. Specifically, RPI has under 6,000, and although I'm sure the engineering/science departments at UIUC are only a fraction of the total undergrad population, it's much easier to become one of many when there's 29,999 other students that are potentially just as good as you, versus at smaller schools where it's harder to get lost because there are simply less people.
Also, please note that UIUC is a top-notch school; I'm sure they do well because they have these things figured out. Other state schools (and there are tons, for sure) have variable quality.